IHF Awards

This award is open to IHF Members, their member hospitals and health service providers who demonstrate excellence or outstanding achievements in advancing corporate social responsibility. The nominee will be a project, programme, or service which clearly demonstrates a commitment to corporate social responsibility in one or more of these areas:

• reducing inequalities in healthcare service delivery;
• advancing universal healthcare;
• providing high-quality and affordable healthcare services for all regardless of the ability to pay;
• promoting and demonstrating inclusion and diversity in their workforce;
• developing and implementing successful innovative and ethical responses to social, climate and environmental issues;
• harnessing a network of local stakeholders for sustainable and systemic responses to public health concerns.

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This award is open to IHF Members, their member hospitals or health service providers who demonstrate excellence or outstanding achievements in promoting “green hospital” initiatives. The nominee will be a project which demonstrates success related to environmental sustainability. Examples include:

• demonstrating energy efficiencies or savings, or significant use of renewable energy on-site;
• reducing environmental impacts including air pollution and water footprint;
• reducing greenhouse gas emission with measurable evidence of success;
• creating a safe, secure, and resilient environment in preparation for natural disasters and climate-change related events;
• providing an eco-friendly and comfortable environment for patients and staff through the use of innovative processes and/or smart technologies;
• promoting, developing, and demonstrating the practice of medicine and care in a sustainable manner;
• collaborating across architectural design and hospital planning to realize a green and healthy hospital environment;
• reducing and safely disposing of medical waste in a sustainable manner;
• engaging with supply chains to ensure more sustainable practices and products;
• collaborating with stakeholders to ensure a more sustainable and health promoting environment for communities;
• supporting and promoting a culture of environmental sustainability through committed organizational leadership.

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This award is open to all government, public and private hospitals and health service delivery organizations who operate in a low-income country (as defined by the World Bank criteria) and/or operate in a region, territory, or country during times of significant crisis (war or natural disaster). The award recognizes excellence or outstanding achievements in delivering health services despite the challenging environment. To qualify for the award:

• the hospital or health service delivery organization must be based in a low-income country as defined by the World Bank and/or in a region, territory or country facing a major crisis (war or natural disaster);
• the hospital or health service delivery organization has experienced or is currently experiencing a crisis that places a significant strain on its operations;
• the hospital or health service delivery organization has developed and implemented a project, programme, or service which demonstrated excellence or outstanding achievements despite the harsh conditions;
• a significant part of the project, programme, or service should be attributed to the organization’s workforce and their efforts and initiatives to deliver health care under challenging circumstances.

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This award is open to IHF Members, their member hospitals and health service providers who demonstrate excellence or outstanding achievements in ensuring the wellbeing of healthcare workers through innovative projects, programmes, or services. Achievements should be measurable and can be in the areas of staff recruitment, retention, engagement and workplace environment. Examples include but are not limited to:

• taking an active, creative, and innovative role in retaining staff;
• ensuring a high level of staff engagement and job satisfaction for clinical and administrative workers;
• demonstrating success in interventions which support staff wellbeing and combat staff burnout;
• promoting the physical and mental health of healthcare workers.

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This award is open to IHF Members, their member hospitals or health service providers who demonstrate excellence or outstanding achievements in leadership and management. The nominee will be a project, programme, or service which demonstrates success in leadership and management. Examples include but are not limited to:

• strengthening governance mechanisms, enabling all staff to be heard by senior leadership;
• creating a culture that fosters clinical and non-clinical staff engagement and strengthens collaboration;
• achieving major breakthroughs in innovative care delivery;
• achieving improvements in patient-reported outcomes and patient experience.

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This award is open to IHF Members, their member hospitals and health service providers who demonstrate excellence or outstanding achievements in promoting quality and patient safety. The nominee will be a project, programme, or service which demonstrates success in improving quality and patient safety. Examples include but are not limited to:

• developing and promoting new or improved services or models of care with quality and patient safety as a core objective and with measurable evidence of success;
• building a workplace culture of patient safety at all organizational levels;
• enhancing workforce education on the importance of patient engagement and empowerment;
• improving quality of care for underserved or at-risk patient populations;
• improving the application of quality and patient safety principles to reduce preventable infections, medication and procedural errors.

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